Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-09
WASHINGTON.
President Cleveland VIII Call the Fiji.
tieth Congress Together on the
First OF October.
The Feeling Engendered In the South
Against the National Drill Already
Felt by the Management.
AN EXTRA SESSION.

AN EXTRA SESSION.
| Special to the Gazette.
| WASHINGTON, April 8.-There is very
well authenticated rumor current which
says that the President has pledged him
self to call Congress together on October
l. 1t is understood here that this de-
cision was reached after long consulta-
ton with Speaker Carlisle. The ex-
Speaker is anxious for reelection. He is
also very deslrous of helping to create 8
very much better record for the Fiftieth
Congress than was left by the Forty-ninth.
In order to accomplish this result it is
necessary that the organization shall be
perfected as soon as possible. 1t was
with this idea that Mr.. Carlisle urged the
President to call Congress together two
months earlier than usual.
The most difficult task which will con-
front the speaker of the Fiftieth Congress
will be the formation of the committees.
Never before in the histry of the country
have there been so many new and untried
men elected to seats in the National
Legislature. The latest estimate of the
House clerks places the number of en-
ti-ely new men at seventy six, or more
than % per cent. of the entire House.
Besides this heavy batch of "raW ma
terial' the new Speaker will have to sup
ply tie places of several chairman of
committees who were left out in the cold
at the last election. There are ten or
twelve Of the Oldest and best posted COM
mittee chairmen who will be missed in
the organization of the next House.
Among them are Morrison of the ways
and means committee, Wellborn of In
dian affairs, Cobb of public lands, Willis
OF rivers and harbors, Sprigg of accounts,
Reagan of commerce, and a great many
others.
1t is understood that Mr.. Carlisle is 80
confident of reelection to the speaker
ship that he has already begun to prepare
a committee list, and that he will try to
perfect the complete organization of the
new House within week after the first
call to order.
ROBBING THE GOVERNMENT.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April Sin very many
instances the authority of petty officials
in the departments is abused outrageous
ly, and in not a few instances it is used
for corrupt purposes. l am informed
upon excellent authority that the chief of
g division in the Interior Department has
in use at his residence towels bearing the
ownership mark Of the department upon
them, and that he laughs at any reminder
of his appropriation. The chief of
another department division carries off
all the supplies he wants for his friends,
while employees in some of the meChani-
cal and artistic branches of the govern
ment are kept at work for weeks at q time
upon goods for outside persons or the
chiefs presiding over the branches where
the work is done.
BOUNCING THE WRONG CLASS.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April "A good deal of
complaint Is being made at the position
assumed by some of the prominent off
Gals in the departments in relation to the
class of clerks who should be selected for
removal. They hold that those who have
accumulated property during the time
they have held their Clerkship should first
be selected for decapitation, and that
those who have lived on their salaries
should be retained. This is simply a
premium on upon extravaganza and q re-
buke against economy.
Any one who has ever lived in Wash
ington and has practical idea about the
lives of people in the departments and
who is any account will have the greatest
respect for those in the governments
service who lay up for a rainy day
Those who do not economic are, |
as rule, the most useless and
undesirable citizens. They squander
their earnings and are a misery to their
friends as well as themselves. This they
do with a consciousness that, under the |
present rule, they will be retained IN their
positions because they have accumulated |
nothing. There is a small class of old |
employees who have accumulated money
and real estate who should be removed on |
account of their accumulations, |
but not because of their
economy. These men are 10 per |
cent. q month brokers and fleece every
body within their reach. But they are |
very few. AS rule the bent clerks and |
citizens in the lists of old employees, and |
the most deserving, are those who have !
each year laid aside portion of their sal
aries for old age. Now it is proposed to |
remove them for it, and there is scram-
BILE to cover up the possessions of frugal |
clerks.
THE NATIONAL DRILL.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April 8-The managers
OF the national grill to be held here in !
May next very readily recognize that they
will sustain heavy losses in their patron
age by the feeling engendered in the south
on account of q couple of colored COM
panies having been permitted to enter for
competition, the same as those mace up
of white men. The south has shown
more enthusiasm In the preparations for
the drill than any other section OF
the country. 1t has the finest military
companies, and an immense attendance
was expected from that locality How
ever smoothly this may be patched up it
is sure to keep away many thousands of
people from the south and Imany military
for southern men here say
that their people will positively not
patroniZe anything anywhere when colored
men are given the same recognition as the
whites.
NOT APPLICABLE TO THE DISTRICT.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, April S.-The authorities